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More stakeholders urged to join fight against suicide
- Health Minister announces formation of ‘soon to be launched’ Mental Health Council THE launching of a Mental Health Council, comprising members from recognised religious communities, and other...
View ArticleGuyExpo update…
Upgrades well advanced as Opening Night draws nigh –Ten countries confirm participation GUYEXPO 2014 Public Relations Manager, Chevon Lim says that upgrades are underway, and designed to cater to the...
View ArticleEPA to host public consultations on biosafety legislation
THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is requesting a public review of draft laws aimed at protecting Guyana from the threats to food safety, animal life, plant life and health posed by...
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Police to conduct sting operations at every bus park
JUST after passengers using various routes would have been asked to pay higher fares during busy hours on week days, ‘A’ Division Commander, Senior Superintendent, Clifton Hicken, with help to ease the...
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Mash 2015 preparations well underway
–Entries for theme, events suggestion invited THE Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports has announced the start of preparations for Mashramani 2015, and is inviting suggestions for the Mashramani...
View ArticleStudy finds…
Guyana’s deforestation rate continues to hold steady –between 0.02% and 0.08% in last 23 years INTERIM results of a study on the deforestation rate of Guyana’s forests in 2013 show that forest harvest...
View ArticleMedical show with call-in feature to air on Channel 28
–also on RCA, Radio Guyana 89.5 FM, the Learning Channel CARRIBEAN Surgery Incorporated, in collaboration with Television Guyana Inc. (TVG 28) and Guyenterprise on Sunday launched a new health...
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International Coastal Clean-up attracts hundreds of volunteers
HUNDREDS of volunteers accompanied by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud gathered along the seawalls in Georgetown last Saturday to...
View ArticleLabour Minister attends high-level policy meeting in Korea
THE challenges related to achieving effective protection against unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean is the focus of discussions at the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB’s) 2014 Labour...
View ArticleGlobal Shapers put smile on faces of 500+ hinterland children
–with generous donation of much-needed school supplies OVER 500 students in Regions 1, 8 and 9 have benefited from the Global Shapers Community ‘Head Start! Stationery Drive’ micro-project at the start...
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Prison Service puts emphasis on reintegration
–OIC, Welfare and Corrections THE Guyana Prison Service has been very active in hosting a number of programmes at its five prison locations countrywide in order to enhance the welfare of its inmates,...
View ArticleYoung mother remanded for allegedly trafficking in narcotics
TWENTY-four-year-old Natasha Livingstone, a mother of one and of South Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was on Monday arraigned before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on a trafficking in narcotics...
View ArticleMiner remanded for allegedly trafficking in narcotics
WADE Mentore, 46, of Lot 4 Rainbow City, Linden, appeared on Monday before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry charged with having in his possession 460 grammes of cannabis-sativa (marijuana) for...
View ArticleSon remanded for assaulting mother
CHIEF Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on Monday remanded to prison Yogesh Manilall (no address given) for wounding his mother. Manlall pleaded not guilty to a charge detailing that, on September 18...
View ArticleGDF commences last recruitment course for 2014 with 283 recruits
THE Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has reported that 283 recruits have started the Basic Recruit Training course at the Colonel John Clarke Military School at Tacama and Base Seweyo from Friday last. A GDF...
View ArticleQuintet implicated in break-in of strange vehicle granted bail
TAXI drivers Rolex Johnson, 37, of Lot 11 Grove, East Bank Demerara; Leroy Lloyd, 35, of Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara; Kurt Kendall, 27, of Lot 474 Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara; Collin Goodrich,...
View ArticleCovent Garden labourer remanded for allegedly stealing motorcycle
TWENTY-four-year-old Anthony Peters, a labourer of Lot 108 Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara, yesterday appeared before Georgetown Magistrate Ann McLennan, charged with allegedly stealing a motorcycle....
View ArticleMan remanded for chopping another for refusing request for cash
CHIEF Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday committed an unrepresented Tony Marcus (no address given) to stand trial at the High Court for attempting to murder Etwaroo Narine on July 6 at...
View ArticleAlbouystown Police shooting… OPR, CID call on independent witnesses to...
THE Guyana Police Force (GPF) continues to be placed between a rock and a hard place with respect to its efforts to regain public confidence and support while having to deal with isolated cases of...
View ArticleGDF Cessna crashes – no one injured
THE Guyana Defence Force’s (GDF) Cessna 206, GDF 3, crashed upon landing, at approximately 13:50 hrs yesterday, at Camp Jaguar, New River – which is about 215 nautical miles from Georgetown....
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